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...shop: she wants to touch the fruit in the market herself. When she is in a rush, she sends Raymond a short message via cell phone saying what she'd like him to pick up. She refuses to use the virtual Post-it note system on the home's portal - which is accessed only via the computer (a similar product features prominently in the plans of many appliance makers). The first and last time the Tangs tried their home videoconferencing equipment was during the crowded press conference held to unveil their apartment last October. "In the future, if the culture...
...couple has never attempted to download music onto the free MP3 players provided by one of the home's many sponsors, or to book doctors' appointments or restaurant reservations online over a special neighborhood portal (few local businesses participate, and it's not that hard to pick up the phone). They had to remove the hallway camera meant to monitor their security remotely, after neighbors in their apartment block complained about being filmed without their consent. And they have had terrible luck trying to switch on their home air-conditioning over the Net before leaving the office. The feature...
Like a lot of other dotcom executives, Bob Davis no longer is one. But in his case the choice was his, not that of angry shareholders and VCs. Davis burst onto the Internet stage in 1995 with that perky little search engine cum portal Lycos and made it profitable, even as others scrambled for revenues. Lycos beat earnings estimates for 19 consecutive quarters. Last October, as dotcoms melted, Davis pulled off a masterstroke, selling the company to Terra Networks, a subsidiary of the Spanish telecom giant Telefonica, for more than $5 billion, including $2 billion in cash...
...first he stumbled around: Would Lycos be a portal or a search engine? Make money through advertising or subscriptions? In early 1996, when Lycos was days away from an initial public offering, the folks at Netscape surprised Davis with a $5 million bill for the privilege of featuring Lycos on the Netscape start-up page (it had always been free). Lycos had only $1 million in revenues, and this Netscape larceny threatened to derail the IPO. But Davis and his team threw together a more disciplined business model, squeezed through the IPO hole and raised $40 million...
...keep them coming back, Africa Online is hiring a team of journalists and designers to build what Makatiani says will be "the African portal." Last August the company announced an alliance with Barclays Africa, a bank operating in nine countries across the continent, to build and market Internet centers in major cities, and eventually offer Internet banking...